2026-08-20
The Retzhof is our first premium partner
The Hochseilgarten Schloss Retzhof in Wagna has given us photos, its logo and detailed information. What a premium entry shows, what it costs – and what it expressly does not buy.
This directory grew out of research, not out of enquiries. We held 350 sites in Austria, Germany, Slovenia and Czechia against their operator's own page, copied out prices, weeded out dead domains and wrote down what applies, in three languages. No operator paid for that, and none had to agree to it.
From today there is one departure from that, and it should be named: the Hochseilgarten Schloss Retzhof in Wagna is our first premium partner.
What changes
The Retzhof has given us its own photos, its logo and detailed information on the courses, getting there and group programmes. The result is an entry that looks different from the other 349:
A picture leads the page instead of a headline on white. The education centre's logo stands beside it.
Ten photos instead of five. The gallery has no limit in a premium entry. Four pictures are our own from August; six come from the Retzhof, among them shots by Tomo Jesenicnik from 2014. Every picture carries the credit that belongs to it, not ours by default.
Detailed text. Where a basic entry runs to around 200 words, this one has sections of its own on the courses, on getting there by train and car, and on what a group booking means in practice.
A notice field the operator can change four times a year. At the Retzhof it currently carries the sentence that prevents the commonest disappointment: booking is by group programme only, and there is no ticket desk.
What premium does not buy
That is the more important part, and it is unchanged:
No better placement. The Retzhof sits in the list, on the map and in the filter exactly where the data puts it. The logo appears on its detail page and nowhere else – not in the overview, not on the map, not on the region page. Paying changes how an entry looks, not where it ranks.
No leaving out awkward facts. The entry still says there is no ticket desk, that no prices are published, and that a family without a group will struggle to get in. For a business serving schools and clubs that is no criticism – but a visitor has to know it beforehand.
No crowding out other sites. On the Styria page the other sites stand as they did.
No different rules for the text. This piece is written to the same standards as every other one here, and it carries the partnership disclosure at the end.
Why the Retzhof of all places
Because the site does something that is rare across the whole directory. The Retzhof holds the European Accessibility Award, and its adventure stations can be used by people with disabilities. Of 350 sites, 29 carry any statement on accessibility at all, and most of those mean a reduced ticket rather than a usable course.
On top of that the Retzhof is an education centre, not a leisure park. Twenty-eight stations, a flying fox and a viewing platform 18 metres up – but no turnstile. How many sites work that way and why is set out in our piece High ropes courses with no ticket desk.
For other operators
The basic entry stays free, for everyone. Anyone wanting to send photos so their site is not represented by a map tile pays nothing for it – only permission to use them is needed. Of 350 sites, five so far have pictures of their own.
What a premium entry adds and what it costs is set out on the page For operators.
Disclosure: Hochseilgarten Schloss Retzhof is a premium partner of hochseilgaerten.com. This has no influence on the selection, the order or the content of the information in this directory.